Sentences with phrase «for dwindling supplies»

Poor people, who often depend more immediately on natural resources and are less able to compete for dwindling supplies, bear the heaviest burden.

The five days he spends there, alone but for dwindling supplies, a small digital camera, and a blunt knife, are envisioned by Boyle as a visceral smear of panic, excretions, mirages, and epiphanies.

They help us drive around, call our friends and power the planet, says Richard Webb, so we need to find alternatives for dwindling supplies — and fast

The series, which was renewed through a fifth season in mid-2013, may be nearing its end, if not for viewership declines (ratings have been hard to come by and never very impressive) than for a dwindling supply of creativity.

In addition to competing for a dwindling supply of CO2, photosynthesis consumes the limited supplies of nutrients.

A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that the woes of the department store industry stem from too many department store names competing for a dwindling supply of dollars.

That's how analysts at Deutsche Bank AG characterize money managers» appetite for the dwindling supply of the securities — which are backed by loans for hotels, malls and offices — that has slashed spreads.

For two years, a shortage of sellers like the Bakers has propped up prices across the U.S. as shoppers jostled for a dwindling supply of houses.

Not exact matches

These import numbers show there is still a rock solid economic case for Keystone: Supplanting the dwindling supply of crude from Mexico and Venezuela.

Such a hypothesis, in our opinion, does much to explain the incongruity of a declining gold price while fundamentals for paper currency, and the US dollar in particular, obviously deteriorate; while demand for physical gold has exceeded new mine supply for several years running; and while above - ground 400 - ounce.999 gold bars located in London, New York, and other financial capitals (in cohabitation with speculative trading activity in paper markets) have steadily dwindled and disappeared into Asian financial centers reformulated as.9999 kilo bars.

Investor demand for above - average risk / reward opportunities has been met with new outlets for speculation, the result of which is that new risk capital available for exploration for supply - starved commodities such as zinc, copper, gold and silver is dwindling.

Strong demand for crude oil and the entire energy sector continues to push prices higher as I still think we will trade above the $ 70 level in the weeks ahead as global supplies have dwindled over the last year due to the fact that worldwide economies are improving which is a terrific thing to see in my opinion.

The United States is one of a dwindling number of nations unenthusiastic about the application of world law when applied to its own conduct, but for reasons supplied by the author, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human dignity.

Environmentalist groups and farmers are becoming allies in their concern for tainted and dwindling water supplies, chemical poisoning, urban encroachment and other issues.

«It's a delayed reaction and you won't see it for maybe weeks or months down the road when your business just dwindles away,» says Glenn Olivier, the owner and vice president of Crown Meat Co., a premier meat supplier in southern California.

Here was the situation for Florida State's head coach in December 2014: stragglers awash on Hair Island with dwindling supplies.

I made the mistake of continuing to feed him for two feedings on one breast, when he was going through a period of not eating as much because of teething, and did nt realize that my supply was dwindling fast!

We would have had no problem with just supplementing with straight up formula if it would have helped (and ended up switching to just fortified formula eventually because of allergies and dwindling supply)-- the reason they were doing the fortified instead of just extra bottles was because she was too weak / sleepy from her heart issues to drink enough liquid in the first place for the necessary calories.

That's really great news for mamas with a dwindling supply!

After pumping regularly for a while you may find that your milk supply is dwindling.

We save our dwindling supply of bags (including those as mentioned above) for absolute necessities.

Your supply may dwindle once you start pumping, making it hard for you to pump what your baby needs each day.

(For instance, if the mother's milk supply has dwindled due to ineffective stimulation and drainage of milk from the breasts, then the correction of the tie will not in itself address the domino effects of lactation failure that may already have occurred.)

My milk didn't come in for ten days, and when it did it wasn't enough to sustain him, so i kept supplementing and just recently stopped breastfeeding at one month b / c the milk supply had dwindled to nothing.

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

Without new missions supplying data for analysis, funding for Venus research has dwindled, leading to fewer students entering the field — and a smaller constituency to lobby for missions.

This appetite for energy is at last being seen as a threat, though not to the environment: the top brass understands that relying on dwindling oil supplies from unstable or hostile countries is a bad idea.

The floral turnover may have affected terrestrial vertebrate communities as the loss of wetland habitat space and an increase in arid climate adapted plants may have dwindled the supply of palatable vegetation for herbivores.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new, carbon - neutral way to convert vegetable - based fuels to syngas, a breakthrough that could allow producers to power hydrogen fuel cells or create a replacement for America's dwindling supplies of natural gas, all without relying on fossil fuels.

Irena Salina, director of the award - winning documentary film, FLOW, about the world's dwindling water supplies, thinks it can be done if world leaders, international banks, the United Nations and other governmental organizations establish cooperative agreements for the use of bodies of water, including groundwater, and economic mechanisms to make sure those who need access to water can get it.

With classroom budgets dwindling, teachers face an uphill battle to find funding for classroom supplies.

The role of thyroid hormone in the transition to a low - carb diet suggests that a thyroid hormone called reverse T3 may be produced as a way to signal the body to slow down, and insulin resistance may actually result as a way for the body to hold on to that suddenly dwindled supply of glucose.

Frozen veggies — I like having some frozen veggies on hand for when my fresh supplies dwindle.

But when their worst fears are realized and the cage breaks away from their boat, they find themselves plummeting to the bottom of the seabed, too deep to radio for help without making themselves vulnerable to the savage sharks, their oxygen supplies rapidly dwindling.

But, when their two week journey stretches to five, tensions boil as their supplies dwindle and their search for the mountains diminishes into a basic journey for water and for survival.

Over the course of its long and rich history the automotive industry has created a lot of cars and chosen names for almost all of them, so it stands to reason that the supply of good car names will have dwindled over time.

The increasing competition for water, the dwindling supply, pollution, and the effects of climate change are examined in Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis, by Stuart A. Kallen.

Many of these books will be marginal or won't have withstood the test of time, but supply will increase even more as trad pubs try to duke it out for dwindling reader dollars.

The simple answer in my opinion is lack of alternatives, especially for long - term investors such as endowment and pension funds, which has created a surge in demand for stocks at the same time that the supply of stocks is dwindling due to the aggressive buyback programs instituted by corporations in recent years.

To date, home prices in Toronto have increased by 15 % over the last year and in Vancouver by 17 %; worse is that the demand for single family detached homes is not diminishing, while supply continues to dwindle.

The increased demand for shelter dogs, combined with the dwindling supply from local sources, has led to unprecedented levels of dog relocation and importation.

This is the only way that Microsoft can add to its dwindling supply of tent - pole titles, doing for a new series what Sony did for the likes of Horizon: Zero Dawn.

That's the water storage for perhaps 1.5 million people right now, people who are NOT yet planning other water storage replacements as this supply dwindles.

But the fact is China's desperate need for more domestically - produced power that doesn't further degrade their dwindling water supplies or pollute their air — which will give your eyes and lungs a good burn on a stagnant day — is a major catalyst for renewable energy growth in the Middle Kingdom.

As an incidental benefit in an era of dwindling water supplies and projected water shortages, forest thinning could play a role in augmenting river flows on a seasonal basis, improving conditions for water - dependent ecosystems, and benefitting the water supplies of downstream communities.

The dwindling supply of coffee is but one example of the many impacts to come due to climate change, and should be a wake - up call for us all.

If other companies were to ensure by - products were fed into the supply chain of other industries — for example by using waste products to generate energy — we would see a big positive impact on climate change, pollution and the Earth's dwindling resources.

It points to the dwindling snowpack, which is critical for the state's agriculture, water supply and $ 5 billion ski industry.

While Americans are burning less coal, Asian demand is booming, so if companies can find a way to export their excess supply, it's a win - win for their dwindling profit margins!

In some places, water is becoming increasingly scarce, as droughts, land degradation, desertification, floods and climate change as a whole mean dwindling freshwater supplies for people to drink.